Fight night weights for full Crawford vs Madrimov card

I trust in Andy's experience and bozy Ennis to overcome any size disadvantages that exist at 135. Why in the world would he move down when he rehydrates 10 pounds. Plus lightweight is the more marquee division.

 

It's been all but impossible to compare fighters in lighter divisions with previous eras ... once they stopped having day-of weigh-ins in the 90s.

Bud Crawford weighed nearly as much as Michael Spinks did for a Light Heavyweight title defense. Spinks weighed 170.5 the day he defended against David Sears. Crawford weighed two ounces short of 170 on Saturday.

We should be comparing how Isaac Cruz (156) would've done against the Marvin Hagler (157.5 the day of) who fought Duran.

This has bothered me to no end for a long time.

Move the weigh-ins back to the day of the fight. You could probably go back to a handful of divisions that way, too.

Nobody in the lighter divisions "move up." They're all already WAY UP there.

Heavyweight is the only division where guys enter the ring remotely close to what they were on the scales. But the lighter weight fighters used to be that way, too.

That's why divisions had a range of weighs of anywhere from five to seven to 15 pounds. Because if a light heavyweight in shape was 170 the day of the fight, that's what he weighed in and fought at. And that's the division he competed in.

No fighters come in close to the bottom of a weight class anymore, because nobody competing in those divisions actually weighs that when they're in the ring. Most couldn't fight a round in their division if they actually had to enter the ring within the division limits.

 

Do you know the weight loma rehydrates to at 135? I can't seem to find anything about it

 

Serge you've been making this point some time and you were spot on. The weight difference between Crawford and Canelo is not what people are making it out to be. Yes Canelo is thicker, yes he weighs more, but Crawford is a big guy and could easily put on a few more lbs and weigh in the 170s on fight night.

 

That was the biggest surprise for me, too Massive gains for a HW.

 

Crawford still being a weight bully then, turns out Madrimov is on his level skill wise and it had nothing to do with 154 division

 

Madrimov is clearly on the smaller side of 154, that makes Crawford a fully fledged 154
GGG would look like a heavyweight next to Crawford
GGG looked 2 divisions bigger than Canelo

Canelo probably is 10 lbs bigger than Crawford now, but if they fought and Crawford didnt have to worry about weight they would probably be the same size.

 

Looks like iam on my own here but I need some actual evidence of these weights, iam not saying they are not factual, only that there’s nothing to suggest they are accurate or genuine.
Apologies if iam wrong but Iam not on social media so I’m not as easily convinced,
So I have not even read the weights.
I’d rather be wrong knowing I have had access to the facts, again I don’t mean to be difficult (it comes naturally lol) but if you can find a more credible source, I would appreciate that.

 

Best evidence you'll ever see for having day of fight weigh ins.

 

Madrimov isn't on "the smaller side of 154," as he weighed nearly 170 pounds when he got in the ring.

Madrimov was fighting at 165 as an amateur eight years ago. He's a natural 170-pounder, clearly, since that's what he's been entering the ring at for nearly a decade. That's his "fighting" weight.

The clearly smaller side of 154 would've been Terry Norris, who weighed in for a 154-pound titel defense against Meldrick Taylor at 149 the day of the fight.

I find the lighter weight fighters today to just be the biggest hypocrites.

 

I love that Jarrell Miller gained 6.4 lbs in a day despite not having to cut any weight for weigh in.